vcpkg export: Is it safe to merge exported packages together?

[marcbertola]

Scenario 1
Alice builds a number of packages for a given triplet:
vcpkg install --triplet x64-triplet-1 pkg1 pkg2 pkg3

For whatever reason, Alice decides to export the packages individually:
vcpkg export --zip --triplet x64-triplet-1 pkg1
vcpkg export --zip --triplet x64-triplet-1 pkg2
vcpkg export --zip --triplet x64-triplet-1 pkg3

(I'm assuming here that nothing is changed in the vcpkg repo between the vcpkg export calls)

Question 1: Bob wants to use these exported packages. Is it safe for Bob to extract the contents of each zip file and merge them together?
(by "extract", I mean rename the top-level vcpkg-export-date-time directory in the .zip archive to a common name for all)

Scenario 2
Alice builds a number packages for multiple triplets:
vcpkg install --triplet x64-triplet-1 pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
vcpkg install --triplet x64-triplet-2 pkg1 pkg2 pkg3

Alice then exports the packages together, per triplet:
vcpkg export --zip --triplet x64-triplet-1 pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
vcpkg export --zip --triplet x64-triplet-2 pkg1 pkg2 pkg3

Question 2: If Bob wants to work with both of these triplets, is it safe to merge the contents exported zip files, as above?

Thanks!

[lesomnus]

Was it safe?

I merged exported package to vcpkg directory on another machine and no matter to find_package but vcpkg install something is not work anymore. It prints Error: database corrupted..